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Good afternoon. As much of the Internet debated the life expectancy of bodegas today, the rest of the world continued turning.
Mueller's probe into the 2016 election has a “red-hot” focus on social media. Special counsel Robert Mueller's team of prosecutors and FBI agents is zeroing in on how Russia spread fake and damaging information through social media, according to a U.S. official. They are seeking additional evidence from companies like Facebook and Twitter about what happened on their networks.
How India became the world leader in Trump projects. Three years after Donald Trump arrived on his private jet for a deal-making tour, India has become the only major developing country where his business is roaring. It has the most construction projects with Trump licensing deals of any country outside of the U.S.
Anna Nicole Smith's billionaire in-laws secretly lobbied the courts. When the heirs of a Texas oil billionaire went to court in a $75 million tax dispute, they got help from an unlikely ally: Barber-Scotia College, the nation's first institution of higher learning for black women. That may seem like the last place for the family of J. Howard Marshall II, famous for his romance with Anna Nicole Smith, to look for help with a tax matter. But the college's name was listed, along with those of four other historically black colleges and universities, on a friend-of-the-court brief submitted in 2013 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans.
The truce among wireless carriers is over. After vowing to avoid a repeat of the blistering iPhone price war of last year, AT&T will fire the first shot by offering a free iPhone with the purchase of another. The buy-one-get-one-free promotion starts Friday and applies to the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, among other phones. AT&T hasn't said whether the deal will be extended to the iPhone X.
The way we get electricity is about to change forever. As we build more electric cars and electricity storage, the cost of batteries plummets. Prices have dropped by half just since 2014. If this trend continues, a widespread transformation of power grids could begin within this decade. Cheap solar and wind power will spread ever faster—now backed by batteries.
Three years in identity theft hell. In 2013, Drew Armstrong's identity was stolen. It took him three years to clean up the mess with banks, the FBI, credit bureaus, and the TSA. It's a nightmare Americans go through every year, and more are likely to be victimized after the massive Equifax hack last week.
The 17 most exciting restaurants opening around the world. After a slow summer season, autumn is when chefs and restaurateurs break out their most anticipated projects. Here's where you'll want to dine and drink in New York, London, and Hong Kong this season. And Indianapolis.
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